Patrick Dempsey was a guest on The Late Show with David Letterman last night and clarified the remarks he made to Italian Vanity Fair a couple weeks ago about leaving Grey's Anatomy after this season.

Kind of. Sort of. Okay, the actor didn't really say anything new: his contract is up, it might get extended, it might not.

But Dempsey was his typically charming self, joking with the host and introducing a clip of him in Transformers: Dark of the Moon. If he does exit Grey's, let's hope this isn't the sort of junk he'll be making in the future...

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